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@AndyGJBurge @Conservatives There does seem to be a weird sort of Future Lottery Winner group, too. “When I become filthy rich, I don’t want the taxman siphoning off my newfound lucre to pay for worthy cause x”

As far as I can ascertain, @Conservatives voters fall into one or more of these categories; The Rich; Millionaires and Billionaires whose only interest is to enrich themselves still further regardless of the damage they do to other people in the process. They vote for and donate to the Tories because they know the party will do nothing to prevent off-shore tax avoidance and evasion The Extremists; The bigots, the racists, the homophobes, the transphobes, the white supremacists and the conspiracy theorists. A mix of uneducated working class (‘I went to the school of hard knocks and the university of life’) and wannabe officer class such as Farage, Bolton and Hamilton. Essentially proto-fascists, they support far-right Tories such as Anderson, Benton, Gullis, Jenrick, Hayes, Leigh, Braverman and Patel. Likely as not to vote for ReFashUK (if and its a big if, they stand for election). They are the hard-of-thinking. cf Bridgen, ReFashUk, BaggageReclaim, The Cap Doffers; Often old, uneducated and nostalgic for an imaginary rose-tinted Britain of the past, these are the people who believe that the Tories are their betters. They support people such as Cameron, Rees-Mogg, Osborne, Johnson and Hunt on the basis that people educated at Eton (or similar) and Oxford were born to run the country. Again, thinking is not part of their abilities The Spivs; An increasingly growing number of wide-boys who have realised that the Tories a) encourage fraud (PPE), b) will not investigate fraud (PPE, VIP lanes) and c) elevate particularly adept fraudsters to the House of Lords (Mone). Often Kent, East Anglia or Essex based. The Home Counties Set; Comfortably off with their largely inherited wealth, these people live in the beautiful countryside of Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Dorset, Wilts, Oxon and Gloucs. They will vote for anything wearing a blue rosette because their families always have done. Still believe that the Tories are the same party of the 1940s-60s The Traitors; A mix of the above, these people will actively do the UK harm to gratify their perverted goals. Most Brexiters are in this category as are the Hedge funders who short the pound and short bank shares and do huge damage to the economy in doing so - cf Rishi Sunak and Crispin Odey. Hannan, Carswell, Farage, Tice and Banks are perfect examples of ideological traitors - really Lord Haw-Haw could have learned much from these. #ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern

@PeterDiamandis @elonmusk @dvorahfr I think this confuses mean and median lifespans. Childhood mortality was super high, but adults tended to live fairly long lives for most of history as far as I know.

@elonmusk @dvorahfr The normal (natural) human lifespan for most of human history was mid-30's. Is it useful to you that you're now cresting 50? And likely to be in good health for another 30 years (if you stop eating donuts)?

We are edging closer toward a dramatically extended healthspan — where 100 is the new 60. What will you create, where will you explore, and how will you spend your time if you are able to add an additional 40 healthy years to your life?

@carbonlolly @Mylovanov I think the original tweet meant people gave up human rights and freedoms in exchange for security and stability…

How to win the war in Ukraine? Putin must go. This, now, is not as difficult as before. Putin’s came to power based on the social contract: political and economic stability in exchange for human rights and freedoms. Can Putin continue to deliver what he promised? No 1/

@evanlapointe That which makes certain actions or behaviours “obviously” right or wrong.

What does "culture" mean to you? I'd say 9/10 teams I meet have a deeply flawed definition and understanding of culture. Not their fault, but it hurts them so much.

@kwonseo @Carnage4Life This. I’d say of 100 workers, 10 take the credit for 50% of the work.

@Carnage4Life Exaggerated. If you have 10k workers, no 100 of them are not doing 50% of the work. Also ignores that many “low performing” workers eventually take up tedious but necessary tasks and make it possible for “high performing” workers to stay engaged with interesting work.

@LisaSellAuthor Naughty Elephants Spray Water is the one I remember.

Oh dear, some poor marketer at @wagamama_uk printed up a few million of these, I'm guessing...

@Dorianlynskey If your proposed policy only works if everyone gets behind it, and is opposed by almost half of the people, it doesn’t stand much chance of success, does it?

@Steven_Lanham @Michael1979 Just give them each a ball so they don’t have to spend all that time chasing after the same ball. It’s demeaning.

The most shameful thing a goalkeeper can do is save a penalty. You're deliberately hurting the penalty taker's feelings and that's incredibly selfish. If I was that goalkeeper's manager, he'd be immediately substituted and sent home in disgrace.

@360Art_Design @martinocchio @jeremycorbyn As with anything, it's a little nuanced, and requires businesses to adapt, but generally see Seattle's example: bigthink.com/the-present/se… or more generally on minimum wage intro in the UK: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

Without immigration, the trains wouldn’t run, businesses wouldn’t function and the NHS wouldn’t exist. We will not end cheap labour by dividing workers and belittling migrants’ contribution. We introduce a £15 min wage, end zero-hours contracts & back striking workers instead.

@cristo_radio @TalkTV @RMTunion Well, if public sector workers are paid more, then everyone’s wages eventually go up, due to competition for staff, but company profits get squeezed. I think a high wage economy is a better goal than a race to the bottom.

@MSalem26 @Gillian_Hab @BetoMedia @BetoORourke Yeah - I agree it’s nutso, but that’s the best I could come up with to answer the Why question.

@mirowalker @Gillian_Hab @BetoMedia @BetoORourke But it’s not a PC, it’s a deadly weapon. What about a futuristic gun that shoots out small missiles? Where will it end?

FYI “every single Abbott supporter laughed as loud as possible, as if it were a joke” Although it appears it is perhaps the man Police are speaking to that @BetoORourke singled out.

@Gillian_Hab @BetoMedia @BetoORourke If you start from the POV that you need a gun in your day to day life (hunting, etc) then it’s natural to want the “best” gun, whatever that is. I imagine it’s like being told MacBooks are now illegal so you have to use a crappy pc.

@BetoMedia @BetoORourke Genuine question, why do some Americans feel that they need AR15s at all? To many people of the world it's rather insane.

@darthothedead42 @Sandman_Netflix I think this might be Hankley Common in Surrey. I distinctly remember cycling past this spot a while back with those creepy cross things. The location is used for loads of filming.

Filming / Final shot #TheSandman

@tdempsey100 @Paul_Briley @Oliveoyl60 @campbellclaret Unfortunately we’d first need a government with the integrity to create such a constitution. Imagine the pathetic rag we’d get if this shower wrote it.

@Paul_Briley @Oliveoyl60 @campbellclaret The monarchy is 100 % pomp and ceremony, they have no actual function. UK needs an actual constitution which actually sets out fundamental laws regarding the structure of government and the division of power between the institutions.

Strong sense of deja vu as the propaganda rags report that 'Boris' will present a 'packed' Queen's Speech that will tear up European red tape for Brexit bonanza, crack down on protesters, level up and put booster rockets under the economy. We know the government has no shame 1/4

@DeborahMeaden I first read that as “shaved” and rather preferred it that way!

And goodnight to the day my sister and I saved a sheep cast on its back from probable death whilst out riding. Horses were mildly surprised but hey… that’s life.. at least it was for the sheep. Night night xx

@jaggedlines @trisweb @dburka @andybudd Missing the cost of maintaining all the failed features though (and/or the reputational impact of shipping mostly poor features).

@trisweb @dburka @andybudd Yeah but the math and logical answer is team 1. 52 projects at 20% is 10.4 successful projects. 4.8 for team 2 and 2.4 for team 3. Team 1 is far more effective.

Product team 1 ships a new feature each week, of which 20% are deemed a success. Product team 2 ships a new feature every month, and have a 40% success rate. Product team 3 ships a new feature every quarter with a 60% success rate. Which team do you want?

@baratheongirl @RestIsPolitics @campbellclaret @RoryStewartUK Yeah - longer terms might help, but I’d quite like to see the messy coalition-based tangle that you see in EU countries with PR. Less room for party lines to dominate.

@mirowalker @RestIsPolitics @campbellclaret @RoryStewartUK They can't be subject to the same sort of elections as the commons because MPs are vulnerable to making policy to win elections rather than purely for the country. The Lords for all of its faults are free of that influence. Longer terms would help with this.

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